Digital Change Manager

ADECCO; Atherstone; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy seeks a Digital Change Manager to support the digital implementations for a utilities client. The role requires planning and executing change management activities, with a focus on stakeholder engagement and user adoption. Ideal candidates should have experience in change management and strong interpersonal skills, accommodating resistance to change. This position is predominantly remote with occasional travel to UK sites, offering a contract of 6 months at £550 per day.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business or Digital Change Manager.
• Strong understanding of stakeholder engagement and user adoption principles.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver tailored change plans.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Map user journeys and help manage resistance.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change management qualifications

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Education

APMG, Lean 6-Sigma Green-Belt, Prosci

Job description

Digital Change Manager
Utilities
Predominantly remote with the need to occasionally travel to UK sites
6 months+
£550 per day

In short: We're seeking a Change Manager to support the digital implementations of a large utilities client. Whilst digital knowledge is important, it's also essential to have business change experience as you'll be a part of an ever-changing and transforming business area. Typically, you'll be comfortable with resistance to change and you can clearly understand the difference between change and delivery as we like to make that distinction.

In full:

The Change Manager is responsible for planning, managing, and executing day-to-day change management activities for a business led change or a specific digital product or service. This role ensures that the people side of change is addressed effectively, focusing on stakeholder engagement, business readiness, communication, and adoption.

Working closely with product owners, delivery teams, and end users, the Change Manager helps to embed change by designing and implementing structured approaches that support individuals and teams through transformation. The role requires a combination of hands-on delivery skills, user empathy, and the ability to manage complexity across stakeholders and workstreams.

This position is essential in making sure digital and transformational changes are well understood, well adopted, and sustainably embedded into business-as-usual.

This role supports the Strategy, Transformation and Change Lead in rolling out the: Change Management Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement Plan & Change Implementation and Adoption.

Key accountabilities:

Change Delivery and Execution

• Design and deliver tailored change plans for a specific digital product or initiative.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and support activities.
• Create and manage change content, including user-facing materials and guidance documents.
• Monitor and report on business readiness, adoption progress and change impact by gathering feedback.
• Design and Deliver detailed change implementation plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies

Stakeholder and User Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with product teams, end users, and business leaders.
• Ensure change messaging is clear, relevant, and timely for impacted groups.
• Represent user needs and feedback within product delivery and change decision-making.
• Support the identification and engagement of change champions and advocates.
• Listening and understanding stakeholder concerns and managing expectations

User Journey and Adoption Support

• Map user journeys and identify impacts across business roles and processes.
• Help prepare users for upcoming changes and manage resistance or concerns.
• Provide support to teams and individuals during the transition period, fostering a smooth and successful adoption of change
• Support post-launch activities to ensure the change is embedded in business-as-usual.
• Contribute to continuous improvement through lessons learned and feedback cycles.

Collaboration and Alignment

• Work closely with Strategy, Transformation and Change Lead to align change delivery with broader product and organisational goals.
• Partner with communications, and project teams to ensure coordinated execution.
• Contribute to the uplift of change maturity across teams through knowledge sharing and support.
• Provide support to teams and individuals during the transition period, fostering a smooth and successful adoption of change
• Working closely with workforce strategy to produce training needs and plans to enable smooth implementation of the strategy

Knowledge and experience:

• Proven experience as a Business or Digital Change Manager, Change Analyst, Process Improvement Specialist or in a similar role
• Change Management Qualifications e.g. APMG, Lean 6-Sigma Green-Belt, Prosci
• Strong understanding of stakeholder engagement, business readiness, and user adoption principles.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver in a fast-paced setting.
• Excellent interpersonal, empathy and communication skills and ability to build strong relationships.
• Exceptional ability to solve problems and think analytically.
• Experience with journey mapping, impact assessments, or role mapping is advantageous
• Great organisational, project, and time management skills

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.